[R] umlauts in a plot label in X11

Peter Dalgaard BSA p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Thu Jun 13 16:17:56 CEST 2002


Florian Hars <hars at bik-gmbh.de> writes:

> After I have found out that I have to tell ess-mode in emacs to use an
> iso-latin<n> encoding scheme to communicate with the R subprocess,
> including umlauts in labels works, at least for writing to postscript.
> Only the X11-display still makes trouble: It uses a font that has some
> russian characters in the position of the umlauts in latin-1/9.
> 
> Is there a way to tell R to use a font that fits to the current locale?

Not without recompiling. The font is basically defined by:

static char *fontname_R6 = "-adobe-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*";

which you could fix by changing the last two "*" to 8859-1. However,
it would likely make our eastern colleagues unhappy to change it in
the distribution.

However, I and I suspect most others actually do get the 8859-1
encoded fonts, so the problem is with your system configuration.

What you could do is to arrange that the system finds the  8859-1
fonts before any other font. This is generally done by manipulating
the font path, or reconfiguring your font server.

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